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Children's Interest (Fiction)

Title	Author/Illustrator/Editor	Context
Oh, Kojo! How Could You!	Verna Aardema ill. Marc Brown	Ghana Ananse story Reading age 7 - 10 Interest level 6+
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain	Verna Aardema ill. Beatriz Vidal	Kenya Reading age 6 – 9
My painted House, my Friendly Chicken, and Me	Maya Angelou photographs Margaret Courtney-Clarke	South Africa Reading age 5 - 7
African Myths and Legends	Kathleen Arnot ill. Joan Kiddell-Monroe	Reading age 10 + Interest 8 +
Exams! Exams!	Usha Bahl ill. Lynette Hemmant	Kenya Reading age 7 – 9 (available in dual languages: Bengali, Gujarati, Panjabi, Urdu)
Kokroko, The Giant: A Ghanaian Tale	Retold by Henrie Barkow ill. Irene Mantra	Ghana Reading age 5 – 7 (dual-language pack with cassette avail. in English, with Bengali/Sylheti, Gujarati, Panjabi or Urdu
The Strollers	Lesley Beake	South Africa Reading age 10 +
That New Dress	Malorie Blackmam ill. Rian Nest James	Fiction
The Magical Bicycle	Elana Bregin	South Africa Reading Age 9 - 12
Handa’s Surprise	Eileen Brown	Kenya Reading age 4 – 7
The Place of Lions	Eric Campbell	Tanzania Reading age 11+

Title	Author/Illustrator/Editor	Context
Not So Fast Songololo	Niki Daly, Victor Gollancz	South Africa Reading age 5 - 7
Tigress	Helen Cowcher	Reading age 5 - 8 Raises issues about conservation and survival
The Girl Who Knows About Cars	Amu Djoleto ill. Pat Tourett	Ghana Reading age 3 – 5
Do You Know Me?	Nancy Farmer	Zimbabwe Reading age 8 - 11
The Eye, the Ear and the Arm: A 21st Century African Adventure	Nancy Farmer	Zimbabwe Reading age 11+
Zami Goes to Market	Murial Feelings ill. Tom Feelings	Africa World
Land Of the Four Winds	Veronica Freeman Ellis ill. Sylvia Walker	Liberia Reading age 7 - 11
King of Another Country	Fiona French	Traditional tale Reading age 5 – 7
Abdul and the Lion	Jesus Gaban (retold by Henriette Barkow)	Morocco Reading age 6 - 9
Pig	Paul Geraghty	South Africa Reading age 11 +
The Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa	Sheila Gordon	South Africa Able reader
When Hippo was Hairy: And Other Tales from Africa	Nick Greaves	Reading age 9 + Interest level 8 + (contains information about wildlife and threats to its survival)
The Village of Round and Square Houses	Ann Grifalconi	Cameroon Reading age 6 – 9
The Captive	Joyce Hansen	West Africa Able Reader
Amazing Grace	Mary Hoffman ill. Caroline Binch	The Gambia Reading age 6 - 10
Grace & Family	Mary Hoffman ill. Caroline Binch	The Gambia Reading age 6 - 10
Boundless Grace	Mary Hoffman ill. Caroline Binch	The Gambia Reading age 6 - 10
Starring Grace	Mary Hoffman	The Gambia Chapter Book
African Stories	Robert Hull ill. Peter Kettle	Reading age 9 + Interest level 7 + ( “Notes” explain significance of animals& objects)
Isimeme’s Stories	Isimeme Ibazebo ill. John Hurford	Nigeria Reading age 8 – 11
Benin: An African Kingdom	Deborah and Elizabeth Isaacs ill. Linda Dacey	Nigeria Reading age 9 + Interest 7 +
Over the Green Hills	Rachel Isadora	South Africa Reading age 5 – 7 Interest age 6 +
Comfort Herself	Geraldine Kaye ill. Jennifer Northway	Ghana Reading age 11+
Muhamad’s Desert Night	Christina Kessler ill. Ian Schoenherr	North Africa Reading age 6 - 9
How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots	Barbara Knutson	Swahili folktale Reading age 5 – 7
Sungara and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale	Barbara Knutson	Tanzania Reading age 7 – 10
Masai and I	Virginia Kroll ill. Nancy Carpenter	Kenya Reading age 6 - 9
Mamo on the Mountain	Jane Kurtz & E B Lewis	Ethiopia Traditional Tale Reading age 6 – 9
Fire on the Mountain	Jane Kurtz & E B Lewis	Ethiopia Reading age 6 +
Almaz and the Lion	Jane Kurtz ill. Floyd Cooper	Ethiopia Traditional Tale Reading age 6 – 9
Storyteller’s Beads	Jane Kurtz	Ethiopia Famine 1980s Able Reader
Jafta and Jafta’s Mother	Hugh Lewin ill. Lisa kopper	South Africa Reading age 4 - 7
The Fire Children: A West African Tale	Eric Maddon ill. Franc Lessac, France Lincoln	Reading age 5 - 8
Mr Kalogo’s Factory	Paulinos Vincent Magombe ill. Mei-Yim Low	Uganda Reading age 7 - 10
The Honey Hunters	Francesca Martin	Traditional tale Reading age 5 – 7 (Shortlisted for the 1992 Kate Greenway Medal)
The Exiles at Home	Hilary Mckay	Kenya Reading age 11 + Winner of the Smarties Prize for fiction
The River that went to the Sky: Twelve Tales by African Storytellers	ed. Mary Medicott ill. Ademola Akintola	Reading age 9 + Interest level 7 +
One Round Moon and a Star for Me	Ingrid Mennen ill. Niki Daly	SouthAfrica Reading age 5 – 7
Hungry But Free: A Somali/English Dual	Omar Mohammed & Eddi McParland	Somalia Reading age 6 – 10
One Day, Long Ago: More Stories from a Shona Childhood	Charles Mungoshi	Zimbabwe Reading age 7 – 11
Journey to Jo’burg: A South African Story	Beverley Naidoo ill. Lisa Kopper	South Africa Reading age 10 – 12
No Turning Back: A novel of South Africa	Beverley Naidoo	South Africa Able Reader
Bitter Bananas	Isaac Olayele ill. Ed Young	Nigeria: African Rainforest. Reading age 6 - 9
Chinye	Obi Onyeful ill. Evie Safarewicz, Frances Lincoln	Nigerian Folktale. Reading age 6 - 9
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret	Florence Parry & Judith Heide Gilliand ill. Ted Lewin	Egypt Reading age 6 - 10
Tippu	Abigail Pizer with David Day	Picture book Introduces conservation Issues Reading age 5 – 7 Ancient Egypt Able Reader
Charlie’s House	Reviva Schermbrucker ill. Niki Daly	South Africa Reading age 5 - 7
Too Much Talk	Angela Shelf Medearis ill. Stefano Vitale	Ghana Traditional tale Reading age 5 - 9
Thara meets Cassipoohka Man	Gaele Sobott-Mogwe ill. Hannie koch	Zimbabwe Reading age 6 - 9
The Leopard’s Drum	Jessica Souhami Francis Lincoln	Ghana Asante tale Reading age 7 – 9 Interest level 5+
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale	John Steptoe	Zimbabwe Reading age 7 - 11
Gift of the Sun: A Tale from South Africa	Dianne Stewart ill. Judy Daly	South Africa Reading age 5 - 8
The Dove	Dianne Stewart ill. Judy Daly	South Africa Reading age 6 - 8
Kai: A Mission for Her Village	Dawn C. Gill Thomas ill. Vanessa Holley	Nigeria 1440 Able Reader
Tortoise’s Dream	Joanna Troughton	Bantu folk tale Reading age 5 - 7
Daniel and the Mischief Boys:True Stories of an African Family	Paul Vallely ill. Mike Goldwater	Eritrea Reading age 10+ Interest level 7+
The Secrets of Kaidara: An Animist Tale from Africa	Hyacinthe Vulliez ill. Etienne Souppart	Mali/Nigeria Reading age 9 +
Mcheshi Goes on a Journey	Judy Wanjiku Mathenge & Robin Miranda	Kenya Reading age 5 – 7
Abena & the Rock: A Story from Ghana	Verna Wilkins & Gill McLean ill. Barry Wilkinson	Ghana Accompanying activities for the science curriculum Reading age 7 – 11
When Africa was Home	Karen Lynn Williams ill. Floyd Cooper	Reading age 5 - 7
Marriage of the Rain Goddess: A South African Myth	Margaret Olivia Wolfson ill. Cliffords Alexandra Parms	South Africa Reading age 9 +
I am River Densu	Alexander Yankah ill. Kwabena Ofori-Panin	Ghana Reading age 7 – 11